Aventine Renewable Energy names new operations manager

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Jun 24, 2013 at 1:00 PMJun 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM

John Shriver has been named operations manager of thePekin Aventine Renewable Energy Inc.'s 55-million-gallon dry mill and yeast plant, which produce industrial and fuel ethanol, feed products and food-grade yeast. He reports to John Valenti, plant complex manager, according to an Aventine press release.

Shriver joined the company, then named Williams Bio-Energy, in 1998 as a professional technician. He was promoted to bio-products plant manager in 2000 and to director of operations services in 2002. Since 2007 he has served as human resources director for Avantine's six plants in Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska and Texas. He continues in that position, reporting to Mark Beemer, Aventine president.

He began his professional career in 1993 as a trace metals staff scientist at PDC Laboratories in Peoria, and later was a quality control chemist at Kal Kan Foods in Mattoon. Shriver holds a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, with a minor in management from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

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